Essays audiobooks

Papeles falsos

By: Valeria Luiselli

Narrated by: Elvira Liceaga

Length: 2 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Papeles falsos, primer libro de Valeria Luiselli, está compuesto por una serie de ensayos narrativos de temas diversos, donde la constante es el registro de la original mirada de la autora, siempre presta a encontrar detalles o conexiones entre ideas de muy diverso orden, ecos de un pensamiento que por fuerza obliga al lector a repensar. La... Read more

Denali

By: Ben Moon

Narrated by: Ben Moon

Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

"....a very sweet dog story" -- Outside

The story of a dog, his human, and the friendship that saved both of their lives.

When Ben Moon moved from the Midwest to Oregon, he hadn’t planned on getting a dog. But when he first met the soulful gaze of a rescue pup in a shelter, Ben instantly felt a connection, and his friendship with Denali was born.... Read more

The Stars in Our Pockets

By: Howard Axelrod

Narrated by: Tom Taylorson

Length: 5 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

What shapes our sense of place, our sense of time, and our memory? How is technology changing the way we make sense of the world and of ourselves?

Our screens offer us connection, especially now in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but there are certain depths of connection our screens can’t offer—to ourselves, to the natural world, and to each... Read more

Pound for Pound

By: Shannon Kopp

Narrated by: Tina Wolstencroft

Length: 8 hours 31 minutes

Abridged: No

"The dogs don't judge me or give me a motivational speech. They don't rush me to heal or grow. They sit in my lap and lick my face and make me feel chosen. And sometimes, it hits me hard that I'm doing the exact thing I say I cannot do. Changing."



Pound for Pound is an inspirational tale about one woman's journey back to herself, and a heartfelt... Read more

The Vindication of the Rights of Woman

By: Amit Varma

Narrated by: Amit Varma

Length: 15 minutes

Abridged: No

Published in 1792, The Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft is not just a pioneering work of feminism, but also a step forward for political philosophy in general. Amit Varma explains how it drove liberalism forward with its argument, radical at the time, that human rights extended to all humans, and not just to men. Read more

Fear of Falling

By: Barbara Ehrenreich

Narrated by: Carmela Marner & Molly Parker Myers

Length: 9 hours 37 minutes

Abridged: No

A brilliant and insightful exploration of the rise and fall of the American middle class by New York Times bestselling author, Barbara Ehrenreich.
One of Barbara Ehrenreich's most classic and prophetic works, Fear of Falling closely examines the insecurities of the American middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the... Read more

Fight for Liberty

By: Mark Lasswell

Narrated by: Aaron Abano, Ewan Chung, Nimo Gandhi, Susan Han...

Length: 9 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

Anne Applebaum, Garry Kasparov, Richard North Patterson, and a constellation of other thinkers make the urgent case for liberal democracy -- reinvigorating its central values in an age of doubt and discord.

Liberal democracy is in crisis around the world, besieged by authoritarianism, nationalism, and other illiberal forces. Far-right parties... Read more

F*ck Your Diet

By: Chloé Hilliard

Narrated by: Chloé Hilliard

Length: 9 hours 15 minutes

Abridged: No

*A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist
*Named Best Comedy Book by the African American Literary Awards Show

Fans of Issa Rae and Phoebe Robinson will love this collection of laugh-out-loud funny and insightful essays that explore race, feminism, pop culture, and how society reinforces the message that we are nothing without the perfect body.

By the... Read more

Europe on a Budget

By: Mark Pearson & Martin Westerman

Narrated by: Will Damron & Gabra Zachman

Length: 6 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

This collection of 42 first-person accounts about backpacking in Europe will awaken a taste for adventure in those who have yet to travel, and bring back memories for those who have. Romance, surprise, discovery and wisdom all bubble through these authors’ riveting pieces.

- Find a surprise romance in the fresh sea air of Cinque Terre
- Dance the... Read more

DE HOMBRES Y BESTIAS

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Armando Garcia Venegas

Length: 1 hour 38 minutes

Abridged: No

George Orwell es uno de los principales autores del siglo XX. Además de sus famosas obras de ficción, escribió innumerables ensayos de carácter político, filosófico e incluso ambiental. En esta edición hemos seleccionado cinco ensayos que corresponden de alguna manera a una evolución existencial en el autor, mostrando sus sueños de realizarse... Read more

Not Very Intelligent Design

By: Neel Ingman & Mark Ingman

Narrated by: Neel Ingman & Mark Ingman

Length: 3 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

Do humans have the best eyesight? No.Do humans have the best hearing? No.Are humans the fastest runners? No.Are humans the best swimmers? No.Can humans fly? No.
This body of ours, is it a good design?
Or could it be better?
Not Very Intelligent Design takes an irreverent look at the human body, analyzes every part of it, and awards each part a mark... Read more

Coventry

By: Rachel Cusk

Narrated by: Antonia Beamish

Length: 7 hours 29 minutes

Abridged: No

From Rachel Cusk, her first collection of essays about motherhood, marriage, feminism, and artRachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the... Read more

You Play the Girl

By: Carina Chocano

Narrated by: Amy McFadden

Length: 9 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM
A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY"If Hollywood's treatment of women leaves you wanting, you'll find good, heady company in You Play the Girl."—ELLEAs a kid in the 1970s and 80s, Carina Chocano was confused by the mixed messages all around... Read more

Essays

By: George Orwell

Narrated by: Alex Hyde-White

Length: 25 hours 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The articles collected in George Orwell’s Essays illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century—a man who elevated political writing to an art. This outstanding collection brings together Orwell’s longer, major essays and a fine selection of shorter pieces that includes “My Country Right or Left,” “Decline of... Read more

Mudanza

By: Verónica Gerber

Narrated by: Gabriela Palafox Teran

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

Habitan este libro personajes con destinos ambliopes. Creadores que en un arrebato de lucidez demencia deciden renunciar, abandonarse a la contingencia para poner su vida, cuerpo y trabajo, en un espacio de indeterminación. Este libro recoge las pruebas de una irrefutable propensión al absurdo. Todas las piezas reunidas en los ensayos tienen por... Read more

Apple, Tree

By: Lise Funderburg & various authors

Narrated by: various narrators, Robin Miles, Elisabeth Rodge...

Length: 8 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

It happens to us all: we think we’ve settled into an identity, a self, and then out of nowhere and with great force, the traces of our parents appear to us, in us—in mirrors, in gestures, in reaction and reactivity, at weddings and funerals, and in troubled thoughts that crouch in dark corners of our minds.In this masterful collection of new... Read more

Timestamp

By: Marcus Granderson

Narrated by: Marcus Granderson

Length: 2 hours 5 minutes

Abridged: No

I’m a twenty-two-year-old Black introvert who overthinks everything, can’t get a date, yet somehow managed to graduate from Harvard.My story is probably not like yours. I’m a Black boy from the Midwest. I’ve never been kissed. I’m desperately in love with two women: Aretha and Whitney. I struggle with a mild form of social anxiety. I sing to... Read more

Fantasviss

By: Cédric H. Roserens

Narrated by: Angus Freathy

Length: 59 minutes

Abridged: No

An alternative guide to Switzerland, with a pint of irony and a drop of causticity. A condensed introduction to the 26 cantons of the Confederation. Superspy Sigmundur Sig Sigmundsson is sent for one month to Switzerland to understand why Swiss people are happier than Icelandic people. Read more

Ideas and Opinions

By: Albert Einstein

Narrated by: Will Stauff

Length: 13 hours 39 minutes

Abridged: No

A collection of Albert Einstein's popular writings, gathered under the supervision of Einstein himself. The selections range from his earliest days as a theoretical physicist to his death in 1955; from such subjects as relativity, nuclear war or peace, and religion and science, to human rights, economics, and government. Read more

The Psychic Soviet, and Other Works

By: Ian F. Svenonius

Narrated by: Ian F. Svenonius

Length: 6 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

A new, expanded collection of both new and previously published essays and articles from one of the mainstays of the Washington, DC underground rock-and-roll scene, The Psychic Soviet is the most complete collection of writings by Ian Svenonius. The selections are written in a scholarly yet engaging style, filled with parody and biting humor... Read more

The Inheritors

By: Sonu Bhasin

Narrated by: Chintan Buddhadev

Length: 10 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

Why did Harsh Mariwala leave his family business?
Why did the Burman family quit the day-to-day operations of Dabur?
How did the Dhingras turn a collapsing business into India's second-largest paint company?
The Inheritors offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in Marico, Dabur, Keventers, Berger Paints, Select Group, Antara,... Read more

On the Shoulders of Giants

By: Umberto Eco & Alastair McEwen

Narrated by: Pete Cross

Length: 9 hours 28 minutes

Abridged: No

In Umberto Eco’s first novel, The Name of the Rose, Nicholas of Morimondo laments, “We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!” To which the protagonist, William of Baskerville, replies: “We are dwarfs, but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see... Read more

The Path Of Light

By: Renuka Narayan

Narrated by: Archana Pania

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

The Path of Light is a collection of short stories nothing if not a mirror to the phenomenal range of human behaviour. Taken from the Upanishads to the Jatakas to South Asian folklore, these simple but contemplative tales show how people are capable of both extreme cruelty and inordinate kindness.

Old-fashioned storytelling meets classic wit and... Read more

Dictionary of the Undoing

By: John Freeman

Narrated by: Jean Ann Douglass & John Freeman

Length: 4 hours

Abridged: No

This program is read by the author.

For John Freeman—literary critic, essayist, editor, poet, “one of the preeminent book people of our time” (Dave Eggers)—it is the rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of the election of 2016, words felt useless, even indulgent. Action was the only reasonable response. He took to the streets in... Read more